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Gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack on a farming community in central Nigeria in the latest deadly violence to rip through the region, police said on Monday. A further 10 people were injured in the shooting in the village of Gbajimba on Sunday…

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack on a key military barracks in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, in a new video obtained on Monday by AFP that warns of further bloodshed, including against civilians. “We carried out the attacks…

Nigerian police said Sunday they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned building the media has branded a “House of Horror”. Police also rescued several severely malnourished people founded wandering…

At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in northeast Nigeria in an attack blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday. The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW), the leading expert in microwave networking solutions, today announced an expanded managed services agreement with MTN Nigeria. Aviat Networks will manage the flow of material into Aviat-controlled…

Turkey’s national carrier denied on Wednesday allegations of arms shipments to unknown groups in Nigeria, which has been ravaged by violence between the army and Islamist militants. “Turkish Airlines, in accordance with company policy, does not ship…